Sure,...that and lots of other things 'can", and will be inherited, but to know beyond a doubt as to what was the cause of something such as kinks takes a good many years to prove either way.

Also, to very accurately control these experiments can really become a big factor too.

Say you had all kinked babies for several years in a row. Was it truly genetic?, or could the temps have been a bit too high in all these scenario's?.

And at exactly what point temperature-wise did any noticable change occur(if any)?.

there is no doubt in my mind that kinks can easily be from a genetic inheritance, just like spinal bifida, dwarfism, diabetes, cancer or anything else.

All I know though with any plausability, is that most spinal kinks seem to be from temps being too high in incubation. I wonder why excessive heat makes the bones/vertebrae themselves grow abnormally??, and to a lesser degree, could easily be an inherited factor.

Now although this link I am posting is regarding Salmon, and not snakes, one can use their own good judgement to see a very plausable correlation here. I thought this was pretty interesting myself. And certainly there is probably much more on bone deformaties caused by higher temps elsewhere on the net too.
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